It is not clear whether they have actually taken any steps to put this objective into practice – short of installing solar panels and a diesel generator there is no much they can do to avoid using tainted electricity.

Indeed, considering that their production of anime masterpieces is in fact directly responsible for increasing demand for nuclear power as people turn to their TVs to watch their products, it does not seem the most well thought out of positions.

On a lighter note, observers cannot help but notice how depressingly shabby the horrible building in question is:

We don't have failing reactors. The Fukushima case is hardly even worth mentioning on the background of a GOD DAMN TSUNAMI.
While we are at it, just drop the Chernobyl already, bringing it up today is like complaining about the technical flaws of computers made way back in the 70s.

God, I hate those dicks that ordered the Chernobyl experiments. It introduced an entire generation of people who just need one word to give out "expert" opinions in nuclear energy.

miyazaki is just beating a dead horse, because as of right now, he doesnt need to worry about using any "nuclear power".
one day, though, we'll all be sitting back enjoying free energy, laughing at the days when we used to dabble in such barbaric methods.

If you go to space without Spacesuit, you will died from Radiation exposure 50 times, before you die because lacked of Air

Btw Solar power kill 100 times more People than Nuclear power in 50 year.
So does Wind

ah dont even mention to use Water, because The greatest dam in the world (three gorgeos Dam) is no 1 Ecological catasthropy. outlasting Chernobyl by 15 times in scale. - you cn read national geographic for "Green-and-Clean" water based Power

Without the earths natural magnetism and several other factors that ward off solar radiation you would be exposed to more radiation that you can even possibly imagine. Every cell in your body would be destroyed before you even were aware what what happening.

If any of these idiots (like the germans... ugh) bothered to look past their initial shock reactions over scary nuclear power plants for a second, they'd know that yearly, about 500 Chernobyl disasters worth of people die from the consequences of coal and oil, be it through pollution or through conflict over these things.

But hey, if it doesn't happen all at once like in Chernobyl, it's ok, right?

Seeing how power consumption is only going to rise sharply in the coming decades, and wind- and sunpower can't fulfill more than a fraction of our needs yet, anyone opposing nuclear energy is supporting death and destruction.

Globally coal releases more radiation then Chernobyl in the form of radon and thorium in the ash on a yearly biases.
The mercury is even more worrying then the radioactive elements.
There is much much more of it and it gets concentrated by the biosphere.
The truth is nuclear and hydroelectric are the only carbon neutral power sources that can form base level power generation.

Now nuclear power need not be the second generation reactors like those at Fukushima.
Third and four generation reactors such as CANDU and MSR are far safer.
They also burn most of their waste and can use more common thorium as a fuel.

LOL, you have no right whatsoever to call anyone else an idiot. Get the fuck out of here and go look up how modern nuclear plants work, learn about a little something called the half-life (that's not just the name of a videogame, you know!) of different elements used in them, and learn about the actual real-world issues involving different methods of power generation.

Wind and solar power don't work, and coal and oil are a thousand times more deadly than nuclear power to the earth and all the generations of people to come, including your own children and grandchildren. Get that through your thick skull. Stop believing in the latest scare rant from some retard on the news who's telling you people are gonna dump leaking barrels of green goo in your back yard.

Then if you still stubbornly insist on remaining ignorant about everything and making judgments based on your gut feeling alone (oh noes nuclear power is scary cuz the old woman down the street told me!) and feel like marching in the streets of germany carrying cardboard signs with bullshit on them like so many, just go and fucking kill yourself. Do us all a favor.

well if you had just looked up the half-life of uranium, you would have seen that the half life of uranium 236 is 2.342×107 years. i don't think that anybody can guarantee safe storage of materials containing U-236 for such a long time.

Of course, it's precisely retards like yourself who are going to stifle development of new types of reactors with your sheep mentality and panic reactions, so whatever happens, we're all going to be fucked thanks to people like you causing pollution and death through your willful ignorance.

i think the germans are right.
Well.. Nuclear power is just aweseome. But as long as humans are around it will just go wrong. See Fukushima, Chernobyl. Or terrorists who could destroy them. And because of the lack of reliability of humans it is good to decrease the number of nuclear power plant. But if we are in the corner of stupid arguments:

People die in africa because they are poor, ill and nobody from the 1st cares for them. Ah. and people die of aids and cancer. zzZzZZZz

Dont forget the energy companies. They try to run a nuclear power plant until it is at the brink of destruction. Where even a small blow of wind could collapse the whole building. Which brings me to my first argument: Humans suck in terms of reliability and responsibility

Germans are retarded beyond hope for several reasons, all of them being tl;dr.
Enjoy your AIDS and fucking expensive "green energy" (which makes another shitload of problems, but it's green, so it's all well and good).

@07:13
Yes, free as in "it requires a crapload of maintenance for huge installation areas". A reactor is small, well trained and can be taken care by a small personal. Cleaning pigeon crap from hundreds of square km of glassy surface requires much more than that.

@07:13
You're forgetting the costs for operating reserve in form of conventional backup power plants and/or pumped storage. Solar and wind energy have extremely fluctuating output and cannot be used by itself.

Also you're forgetting the costs for toxic waste disposal once your solar panels reach their end of life in 20 years.

Well Jimmy, sit down and let me tell you something about Nuclear energy. To create a reactor, you need to understand physics and particularly about particle physics. And in case you failed to notice in high school because you were too high, that is actually a damn hard thing to understand and certainly above the level of some dumb terrorists who think it's a bright idea to cause an uncontrolled fission reaction on the only planet they live.

Fukushima is barely worth mentioning and the damage has, so far, been mostly limited braincells damaged by all the idiotic media hype.
Chernobyl was a dangerous experiment made possible by stupid administrators, lack of oversight and lack of 40+ years worth of technology we have today.
As for the human problem, that's why we have an army of techies running around each reactor and still install a bunch of computer systems to monitor every little aspect of the damn things.

People die in africa because they are poor, ill and nobody from the 1st cares for them. Ah. and people die of aids and cancer.

That's not really related to our energy problems, but I'm glad you care.

Dont forget the energy companies. They try to run a nuclear power plant until it is at the brink of destruction.

Sadly they do that, but that's an argument against energy companies and not nuclear power.

Where even a small blow of wind could collapse the whole building.

I don't know about small wind but several nuclear reactors have been hit by hurricanes and the only outrage they seem to suffer includes some damage to the surface installations which are not involved with the reaction itself.

Which brings me to my first argument: Humans suck in terms of reliability and responsibility

Well, feel free to offer something more suitable for the job. No? Then we'll stick with what we have, rather than going into another dark age (literally!) of technology.

@07:39
Dropping a plane on a Nuclear reactor will do exactly nothing unless it's a 30 year old relic (hello Fukushima). It's just like ignorant people to overreact because greedy energy companies don't want to upgrade to inherently safe modern reactors, which could never accidentally go into an uncontrolled chain reaction (including earthquake or crashing airplane damage).
Sadly, most people love jumping the gun instead of actually educating themselves on the subject before they open their mouth. Do some research, the people who design and build these things are probably just as concerned about blowing up Earth* as you are.

*Note: You can't actually blow Earth up. Just to be safe.

@15:19
Contrary to what you may believe, explosives of any nature don't do much to nuclear fuels. You can crash that plane in a wall of U-235 to much the same effect as you saw in the video.
To cause a nuclear reaction you need specific particles which can not be produced easily, particularly not by chemical fuel.
Even if you crashed that plane in a thorium reactor proper, it will just stop the reaction rather than make it critical.

James camoron can get butts in the seats for most of his movies, but it doesn't excuse the fucking hypocrisy he dribbles out with his "save gaia" shit. You should youtube a look at his MEGA MANSION. So too should we Not hold back and blast that old fart of a "master" of entertainment when he declares such stupidity as mentioned above!
+ No nuke on my watch? I hate technology?!
If so; why is he wearing the clothes and checks the watch on his arm? Or even draw for the matter~ since it is all made by MACHINES [Inks, Cels, paints, cameras, pencils, lights,~]! Hand made wears? MACHINE spinned strings! Glasses to prevent walking off a stair or cliff in low lights? MACHINE formed lenses and frame! Dark and needing light? Even if you just use wood, it's more than likely you needed tools to make the torches of which are MACHINE made tools!
~it goes on, but I'll leave it here as showing what a fucking 'TARD this old libertard old fart is when he FLEW around euroland in a goddamn FUCKING PLANE!